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* In ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' Toffee is missing a finger, despite being able to regenerate at least his entire arm. The finger being blasted off by [[spoiler: Star's mother]] is depicted in a picture that refers to him as the "immortal monster" implying it took powerful magic to cause him permanent injury. [[spoiler: The Season 3 premier reveals that Moon used a powerful Dark Magic spell she learned from Queen Eclipsa to blast Toffee's finger off (a direct hit would have killed him, but doing so would have released [[BiggerBad Eclipsa]] from her prison). Physically reattaching it is enough to allow Toffee to fully heal, though it doesn't do him much good before Star's SuperMade disintegrates him.]]

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* In ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' Toffee is missing a finger, despite being able to regenerate at least his entire arm. The finger being blasted off by [[spoiler: Star's mother]] is depicted in a picture that refers to him as the "immortal monster" implying it took powerful magic to cause him permanent injury. [[spoiler: The Season 3 premier reveals that Moon used a powerful Dark Magic spell she learned from Queen Eclipsa to blast Toffee's finger off (a direct hit would have killed him, but doing so would have released [[BiggerBad Eclipsa]] from her prison). Physically reattaching it is enough to allow Toffee to fully heal, though it doesn't do him much good before Star's SuperMade SuperMode disintegrates him.]]

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}''; Malakith, Witch King of the Dark Elves, attempted to prove his legitimacy to the Phoenix Throne by stepping into the Flames of Asuryan. Unfortunately for him, the Flames deemed him unworthy and roasted him, and even with his magical armor keeping him alive the burns are still agonizingly fresh after centuries.

** The body of Roboute Guilliman, Primarch of the Ultramarines, is kept in a stasis field on their homeworld of Macragge, his mortal wound still visible. Occasionally an excitable pilgrim will swear that the wound is healing, but the Ultramarines dismiss these claims, since, well, [[TimeStandsStill stasis field]]. [[spoiler:Subverted as of ''Gathering Storm'', where they put the new Armor of Fate which is heavily implied to possess advanced life support systems, and Guilliman is alive once more.]]

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** The body of Roboute Guilliman, Primarch of the Ultramarines, is kept in a stasis field on their homeworld of Macragge, his mortal wound still visible. Occasionally an excitable pilgrim will swear that the wound is healing, but the Ultramarines dismiss these claims, since, well, [[TimeStandsStill stasis field]]. [[spoiler:Subverted as of ''Gathering Storm'', where they put the new Armor of Fate which is heavily implied to possess advanced life support systems, systems (and a healthy dose of Eldar magic), and Guilliman is alive once more.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' Toffee is missing a finger, despite being able to regenerate at least his entire arm. The finger being blasted off by [[spoiler: Star's mother]] is depicted in a picture that refers to him as the "immortal monster" implying it took powerful magic to cause him permanent injury.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' Toffee is missing a finger, despite being able to regenerate at least his entire arm. The finger being blasted off by [[spoiler: Star's mother]] is depicted in a picture that refers to him as the "immortal monster" implying it took powerful magic to cause him permanent injury. [[spoiler: The Season 3 premier reveals that Moon used a powerful Dark Magic spell she learned from Queen Eclipsa to blast Toffee's finger off (a direct hit would have killed him, but doing so would have released [[BiggerBad Eclipsa]] from her prison). Physically reattaching it is enough to allow Toffee to fully heal, though it doesn't do him much good before Star's SuperMade disintegrates him.]]

* Human bite wounds are notoriously difficult to heal, and have an abnormally high propensity for becoming infected. This is due in part to saliva being saturated with bacteria.

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* Human bite wounds are notoriously difficult to heal, and have an abnormally high propensity for becoming infected. This is due in part to saliva being saturated with bacteria.bacteria which is already accustomed to living in the human body.

* [[Myth/CelticMythology Fragarach]], forged by the gods and wielded by Lugh, Cúchulainn and Conn of the Hundred Battles, had a number of properties that marked it as a CoolSword, including the ability to inflict these.

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* [[Myth/CelticMythology Fragarach]], In Myth/CelticMythology, there is Fragarach, forged by the gods and wielded by Lugh, Cúchulainn and Conn of the Hundred Battles, had a number of properties that marked it as a CoolSword, including the ability to inflict these.

** The wound even remains when he transforms into his Dark Beast Ganon form, and acts as his weak point in the battle. [[spoiler:In the end, Link completes Ganondorf's long overdue execution by impaling him through the wound with the Master Sword. This time the Triforce of Power abandons him. Doesn't help that Link uses a JUMPING stab, as well.]]* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': The burns inflicted by {{H|ellhound}}oundoom are said to never stop hurting and (presumably) never heal. [[InformedAttribute This is just one of the countless facts provided by the Pokedex that are never actually shown to be true, though.]]

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** The wound even remains when he transforms into his Dark Beast Ganon form, and acts as his weak point in the battle. [[spoiler:In the end, Link completes Ganondorf's long overdue execution by impaling him through the wound with the Master Sword.Sword and with a jumping stab to be sure. This time the Triforce of Power abandons him. Doesn't help that Link uses a JUMPING stab, as well.]]* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': The burns inflicted by {{H|ellhound}}oundoom are said to never stop hurting and (presumably) never heal. [[InformedAttribute This is just one of the countless facts provided by the Pokedex that are never actually shown to be true, though.true.]]

* In ''The Medusa Amulet'' by Robert Masello, the titular amulet makes anyone immortal if they look at their reflection and the reflection of the full moon at the same time, but they are left completely frozen in the state they were in when they see themselves. Artist Benvenuto Cellini, who created the amulet and was the first beneficiary of its power, is noted as still suffering crippling damage to his legs after he jumped out a window to escape a Nazi raid in the Second World War, and other users of the amulet's power- Marie Antoinette [[spoiler:and Adolf Hitler]]- are depicted as actually still retaining consciousness [[AndIMustScream|even after being completely decapitated]] until their heads are explicitly destroyed.

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* In ''The Medusa Amulet'' by Robert Masello, the titular amulet makes anyone immortal if they look at their reflection and the reflection of the full moon at the same time, but they are left completely frozen in the state they were in when they see themselves. Artist Benvenuto Cellini, who created the amulet and was the first beneficiary of its power, is noted as still suffering crippling damage to his legs after he jumped out a window to escape a Nazi raid in the Second World War, and other users of the amulet's power- Marie Antoinette [[spoiler:and Adolf Hitler]]- are depicted as actually still retaining consciousness [[AndIMustScream|even [[AndIMustScream even after being completely decapitated]] until their heads are explicitly destroyed.

* In ''The Medusa Amulet'' by Robert Masello, the titular amulet makes anyone immortal if they look at their reflection and the reflection of the full moon at the same time, but they are left completely frozen in the state they were in when they see themselves. Artist Benvenuto Cellini, who created the amulet and was the first beneficiary of its power, is noted as still suffering crippling damage to his legs after he jumped out a window to escape a Nazi raid in the Second World War, and other users of the amulet's power- Marie Antoinette [[spoiler:and Adolf Hitler]]- are depicted as actually still retaining consciousness [[AndIMustScream|even after being completely decapitated]] until their heads are explicitly destroyed.

* ''[[FanFic/BoundDestiniesTrilogy Blood and Spirit]]'': During his confrontation with the Fierce Deity early in the fic, Link suffers a slash across the chest that infects him with [[TheCorruption Majora's corruption]]. Every time Majora begins to exert his influence and corrupt him further, the wound reopens.

* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'': Near the end of ''[[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity Arkham City]]'', Ra's al Ghul, in an attempt to finish off Batman while the two are free-falling from Wonder Tower, [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice runs himself through with his own sword]] when Batman grabs him and is on his back, only for Batman to evade it at the last second. When Ra's returns in the ''Season of Infamy'' DLC for ''[[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight Arkham Knight]]'', he's finally used the [[HealingVat Lazarus Pit]] one time too many, and it shows; the gaping wound in his abdomen from the impalement has not closed, exposing his entrails and revealing green VolcanicVeins.

** The body of Roboute Guilliman, Primarch of the Ultramarines, is kept in a stasis field on their homeworld of Macragge, his mortal wound still visible. Occasionally an excitable pilgrim will swear that the wound is healing, but the Ultramarines dismiss these claims, since, well, [[TimeStandsStill stasis field]].

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** The body of Roboute Guilliman, Primarch of the Ultramarines, is kept in a stasis field on their homeworld of Macragge, his mortal wound still visible. Occasionally an excitable pilgrim will swear that the wound is healing, but the Ultramarines dismiss these claims, since, well, [[TimeStandsStill stasis field]]. [[spoiler:Subverted as of ''Gathering Storm'', where they put the new Armor of Fate which is heavily implied to possess advanced life support systems, and Guilliman is alive once more.]]

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